another 500 grants are expected soon under the rural energy for america program. the federal government is quietly investing in renewable energy and making energy more affordable and more renewable. happens in ways you don't hear about much unless you read local business pages where federal money coming to town makes a big difference. to the extent washington is talking about alternative energy right now at all, the talk has to do with a failed government loan to a company called sylindra, a maker of solar panels. this month the company closed its plant, laid off more than 1,000 people and went bankrupt. congress called its top executives to testify last week on capitol hill. the executives took the fifth. you can argue the sylindra case any number of ways, whether president bush was responsible for it since the loan started under him or whether you want to blame president obama. whether any administration should have known better to loan to them or whether it's a bad bet in a partnership which is never a good thing. solyndra made headlines in the latest round of

one is an item for the america's cup program. under the america's cup agreement, there is supposed to be the america's cup workforce implementation program and that is supposed to be done concurrently with the environmental review, i'm worried might be behind, so i want to have a hearing early september to make sure we are on track as a city in developing the work force planned trade there are numerous job opportunities in construction and the jobs related to the offense for america's cup and we should be doing everything we can to make sure we have as robust a workforce development plan to hire local san france -- to hire local san franciscans. i also have my next item, a request for legislation to be drafted, related to the access for bicycles in commercial buildings and existing commercial buildings in downtown san francisco. i have had about four different bikes in my lifetime. three of them were stolen from me. i have had the current one for 10 years and i have been very safe with my bike to prevent theft. but one of the ways

america foundation. i have known ron robinson for 35 years since we worked in campus politics to get there. have the greatest admiration for what they're doing with the ronald reagan ranch and programssponsoring throughout the year around the country. i hope you will stay very active with young america's foundation during the coming academic year. it is a real pleasure to be here. i thought since i am first time might begin by talking about why this panel is being held and why it is important to read books. they say reading books is somewhat of a dying art with all the competing opportunities we have in our time but i think young america's foundation recognizes the importance of a cannon of literature. about america's founding ideas. limited government and the free enterprise system by chairing this panel. by reading books we really get -- we develop a philosophical framework, those first principles that enable us to evaluate public policy and make judgments about ideas that come along. if we familiarize ourselves with the ideas of jefferson and madison and great economists like milton friedman and others, when we come across ideas that challenge us we can think about what it is tho

steve culberson runs youth service america program where he engages hundreds of thousands of young people in service around the globe and he builds that kind of relationship and understanding that we need to build on. scott beale who wrote -- it refers peas where people come from all over the world to actually serve here in the united states and learn. i actually think when we think about preemptively how do we learn and how do we prevent i actually think there's a whole broad range of tools and the military piece may be a small part of that but if we start to think creatively we have so many wonderful social entrepreneurs, so many people doing incredible things around the world and if we leverage levered semi-think that will get us much further. thank you. >> hi, you have clearly reached levels of excellence in everything you have set out to do. what do you credit that to? just in your dna or your upbringing, your faith? >> well, first of all thank you very much. one of the things i should point out and i hope is made clear when you read the book is what you may be seeing is kind of the

america. >> yeah. mohamed, it's good to have you on the program. your time today. >> thank you. >> maria. >> we'll see you soon. mohamed el-erian joining us from pimco. >>> up next as "the wall street journal" and the world marks 2001, a look back at the men who ran theity and the exchange on 9/11. former mayor rudy giuliani and former chairman dick grasso joins me. >>> the local economy in this iconic part of new york.

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-- objects to the america's cup but i think the deir that stands is somewhat incomplete because it mashes together a project e.i.r. that is the cruise terminal and incomplete program e.i.r. with the america's cup and kind of it has added a new program which lacks a complete description and there is no environmental analysis. that is speculative and inconclusive addition of two occupying pier 14 to 22.5 and 27-29. these are up to 500-foot boats. few or nobody in the world has really ever analyzed the environmental effects of this. the event description for me would appear very optimistic, yet it is open-ended and some were omitting information. it is particular when it does not analyze the actual effects on the surrounding neighbors. it speaks about the waterfront but the surrounding neighbors, like the secondary and living areas for us, the main living areas are not really fully addressed. the project for the long-term lease beyond 2012-2013 is incomplete. the amount of impact cannot be analyzed, although it should. that would require a top of lease, the exact location, the number of locations, specifically where the tides and intensity of uses, the frequency of u

america." on tonight's program, keeping new york safe. 10 years after 9/11, we get access to see how the city is being protected from almost every angle. russian president dmitry medvedev says there must be an approval for aviation safety. this comes a day after people were killed when the plane failed to take off and crashed into the banks of the river. the president said the number of russian air carriers must be reduced radically and urged it must be done in the shortest time possible. we report now from the scene of the crash. >> in the river, the search continued into the morning, not for survivors, but for wreckage of the plane and the bodies. dmitry medvedev had been at a political conference. he began his day here. at the site of the aircraft, he laid rose's and bowed his head in honor of the dead. later, the president criticized the safety record of russian airlines. he warned that if his country could not produce reliable aircraft, it would have to buy foreign-made planes. the jet had crashed here in a ball of flames soon after takeoff. 43 of the 45 people on board were killed. among t

-- objects to the america's cup but i think the deir that stands is somewhat incomplete because it mashes together a project e.i.r. that is the cruise terminal and incomplete program e.i.r. with the america's cup and kind of it has added a new program which lacks a complete description and there is no environmental analysis. that is speculative and inconclusive addition of two occupying pier 14 to 22.5 and 27-29. these are up to 500-foot boats. few or nobody in the world has really ever analyzed the environmental effects of this. the event description for me would appear very optimistic, yet it is open-ended and some were omitting information. it is particular when i

america. >> these programs actually weakened us as a people.you see, almost and forever, it was institutions and society that assumed the role of taking care of one another. if someone was sick in your family, you took care of them. if a neighbor met misfortune, you took care of them. you saved for your retirement and your future because you had to. but that all changed when the government assumed those responsibilities. and the government cried out against these who weakened our society. >> institutions? weakened americans? that comment was a-1 flat out stupid, and i take offense to it because i know what my family has been through as americans. we call him a political hack. why in the world would we do that? because he's hacking awayç at e big 3 despite some very serious facts. we pointed out 20 million more americans would live below the poverty line if social security did not exist. 45% of senior citizens would be poor, and # is mi1 is million r million floridians are using social security. the times reports out of florida, rubio's using t

thought they were unconstitutional you don't have to go to the confederate states of america i think certain programs might be unconstitutional what i find amazing is how can he assured us sitting here the period. when i read i well maybe that's what he's saying and i agree with you for the first time i believe and i'm i've done more to go and i you know it's always good to read what you're in and you write you know i read it i refer to the republicans as the person the people that wrote and wrote the confederate states. yes what i'm referring to is that i think there's tremendous similarities in their policies and their attitude you we said here is that this is not the same governors that he wanted to sleep from the nation i mean that's not confederacy i don't know what is and of course now that he's running for president it was all just a big joke i'm sorry this is completely historical plenty of republicans opposing these programs in the one nine hundred thirty s. mainly from the north who had nothing to do with the confederate states of america to make a suggestion that perry's playbook is the co

on these programs that are out there in congress they haven't their number one job and don't let america forget this is to make obama fail they have not been a deuce of a single damn job at all they have taken for example congressional black caucus has introduced forty job creation bills guess what having gotten out of committee so i think what's going to happen this is going to slap on in the face come next to this this election term because people are suffering and they're going to remember that it the president set a goal at least he's trying they're introducing job creation bills and what you've got is a party that is been the obstruction is all you have to ask them is what is their job creations bill why is the public policy bills that create jobs they don't have solicit what's the working class it. being as is and then surely you know like that perhaps that is that the public sector is going to pass out of private sector and if we're trying to hide government spending that's going to be people trust me it's not the best thing you don't want people to lose jobs but at this point eve

. >>> this sunday we're airing a special program called america remembers, marking the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. our live prime time special will air immediately following sunday night football. jessica aguirre will report from ground zero in new york. >>> at some point it comes down to money. that point is now. how much and who is paying? bart says the tab for dealing with the protests this summer is adding up hundreds of thousands of dollars have already been spent on police protection and staff overtime. another protest is scheduled for tomorrow. we bring in traci grant who joins us at the civic center station. traci, this is the epicenter of the summer's activity. is there a concern bart riders will have to pay for this maybe incorrectly down the road? >> reporter: that is the concern, actually. it's interesting. it's really quiet here in civic center station right now. but it might be a bit different tomorrow with the other protest that's planned. no one really knows how many people will show up. whatever happens, it will add a few more dollars onto the growing bill tha

. >> reporter: the mall of america launched its program to help spot terrorists, five years ago. their program gets widely cited as a model. maureen bausch is vice president of the mall. >> well i think our name, first of all, mall of america, is attractiveat want to hurt america. the government officials have asked us always, since 9/11, to be on the watch. >> reporter: we wanted to know, exactly who is watching across the country? npr and the center for investigative reporting asked more than 20 communities to show us suspicious activity reports from their areas. only one city agreed: officials in bloomington minnesota sent us reports from the mall of america. and who did the mall find suspicious? people like brad kleinerman. we got this 15-page report about him from the bloomington police department. >> i was dumbfounded that this report existed. >> reporter: the mall's guards wrote that kleinerman walked nervously through the mall. they said he looked at two of them closely, which was very odd. he had a defensive body posture. their conclusion: kleinerman is a suspicious pers

america." still to come on tonight's program, fishing for an answer. who will run for russian president in march? the two top contenders may know but so far they're not telling. the american, amanda knox, will learn shortly if she can walk free after four years in prison for murdering her british flatmate, meredith kercher. an italian court has been hearing the closing arguments in her appeal. >> amanda knox, one of the world's best known convicted killers, back in court today as her appeal reached its final stages. her family are increasingly confident that they have won the argument that she and her former boyfriend, raffaele sollecito, are innocent. but the italian prosecutors insisted today in closing statements that there was still a lot of evidence against her and warned the jury to ignore the spin of the during the appeal, a lot of the forensic scientific evidence gathered at the house where amanda knox and meredith kercher were flatmates has come under intense scrutiny. the victim was the british language student, meredith kercher. she was 21 w

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i went to a fun for america's study program, the organization i work with now with mark levin, and we became great friends there. mark wrote a book -- [applause] yeah. [applause] two years ago, a run away best seller, "liberty and tyranny," another great introduction to the ideas we talk about here that i highly recommend. a few more, and i'll yield my time. i think it's important for us 20 -- to have good grounding with original sources. the theory of moral sentimentses, also a great book for you to be familiar with. "human action," i read that in my early 20s, and it just -- it's a dense book, but readable, and gives you just the whole a to z understanding of the austrian school of economics, of free market economics. he wrote other great books "socialism" a great rebuttal of socialist ideas. i love the book "give me a break," and it's a great introduction to free market ideas by john stosle. "the road to surfdom" is a timely warning to us about how encroachment of government through regulation, through a larger and larger state, control of our lives puts us on a path towards the ro

. >> you are watching "bbc world news america," still to come on the program, from afghanistan to the arab spring, what should the american role be? in thailand, officials say they have seized nearly 3000 rare animals and what is called the biggest wildlife trafficking bust this year. >> this a truck was carrying hundreds of endangered animals when it was stopped by customs officials. inside, they found an animal -- they found loot worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. officials believe that the animals were being trafficked through the region. >> we have rescued wild animals that are protected by law. we have received information that they were passing through thailand and the smugglers were arrested. we were able to save nearly 3000 animals. >> thailand is a member of the convention on international trade of endangered species which in theory should protect these animals from being smuggled. trafficking of in danger animals is thought to be rife here. this is a big business. the illegal wildlife trade is thought to amount to billions of dollars every year globally. many of them en

what is the bipartisan compromise between i'd like to have a nice jobs program for america, because we've got a real unemployment here. and, we don't want to do anything to help the economy until after 2012, because we're really only interested in destroying you. where's the 50 yard line between those two positions? i can't find it. >> roger simon, did you get any indication from your highly-placed source at the white house today, with regard to their response to this sort of behavior. that there will be a change in the president's demeanor? will he continue to pursue what i describe as the reasonable ground, or did they give you that story because they want people to know, we're now drawing a line in the sand? >> i can't say for sure as to the president. i think his staff is tired of what has been going on. and would like to see, not just his staff, his democratic base, would like to see a tougher barack obama. now, that may not be in him. he didn't run a very mean campaign in 2008. he ran a good campaign. but it wasn't mean. maybe he's going to have to get meaner if he wants to win in 2

. >> this sunday, we're airing a special program called "america remembers," marking the 10th anniversarythe attacks. our primetime special will air follows "sunday night football." garvin thomas will be in shanksville, pennsylvania and jessica aguirre will continue to report from ground zero. >>> the fbi raided a bay area company that laid off more than a thousand people. president obama had just visited them last year, calling them the future of american innovation. now it's the center of a federal investigation. fbi served search wants this morning. the raid is in conjunction with the department of energy but no other details were provided. earlier this year, the federal government gave the company a $535 million loan for expansion purposes. the company filed for bankruptcy this week. >>> let's turn our attention to our chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. as we head into this weekend, how is it looking, jeff? >> we're looking at clearing here, some sunshine and still tracking that potential of thunderstorms, as well. we draw your attention to the north bay where temperatures are dropping

america's economic future. please welcome to the program jennifer granholm. (applause) how are you. >> i'm great. >> jon: governor's story, fight for jobs and america's economic future. yesterday we had on another midwestern governor faced with a lot of similar things that you faced in michigan on the republican side. how much do governors come together on policy? how much of it-- when you are a governor how much is ideaological, how much is pragmatic. >> a ton of it is prak matic but we do compete against one another, for jobs. we're always boasting oh, i got this job from, you know, illinois or indiana or texas, every governor is in the game of competing for jobs. and that's not a very good national strategy. >> jon: so you are not just competing globally. >> no. >> jon: you're actually competing with right-to-work states. >> well, and every governor has an interventionist economic development strategy, you know, rick perry who says, you know, i want to get government out of your business, but every day his economic development team has big economic developm

what is the bipartisan promize to, i would like it have a nice jobs program from america because we have a real unemployment program, to we don't want to do anything to help the economy until after 2012 because we are only really interested in detroying you. where is the 50-yard line between the two positions? i can't find it. >> did you get any indication from your source at the white house with regard it their response at this behavior that there will be a change in the president's demeaner? or did they give you the story today because they want people to know, we are drawing the line in the sand? >> i can't say for sure as to the president. i think his staff is tired of what has been going on. and would like to see, not just his staff, his democratic base would like to see tougher, barack obama. now that may not be in him. he didn't run a very mean campaign in 2008. he ran a good campaign. but it wasn't mean. maybe he is going to have to get meaner if he wants to win in 2012. because he certainly doesn't have the economy on his side any more. >> when you study ron reagan, those number

[laughter] his new book is called "keeping the republic: saving america by trusting americans." please welcome to the program governor mitch daniels. [applause] thank you for joining us. "keeping the republic: saving america by trusting americans," and you've met us, americans. >> you asking me? i've met a few. >> jon: and you still trust us? [laughter] >> i can make an exception in your case, jon. >> you've seen the "dancing with the stars" controversy. so for you, now obviously you were... you are still spoken of in very i think almost sacred terms as the fiscally responsible governor that could save the republican party, that could be president. a woman in the audience tonight would very much like you to be president or at least vice president. >> jon: >> one woman? >> jon: it's our audience. i don't know what to tell you. [five minutes later] >> jon: the trouble with the plan, they keep saying, the government is out of control. they're spending more than they take in. they're crazy. they're like drunken sailors, but when they were in charge, they had an unpaid-for medicaid bill of a trillion dollars, the

program. it's creating jobs in america. so the republicans, i know they don't really like to listen to what i say a lot but they should listen to the chamber of commerce. the national manufacturing association, a very conservative group, they sent the republicans a letter saying bad deal. don't do it. they did it anyway. now i just got a letter from the u.s. conference of mayors. all the mayors in the country, republicans and democrats, sent a letter to the house saying don't do this. and they did it anyway. so the only people more powerful, the only group more powerful than the chamber, than n.a.m., than the mayors are the people themselves. if this weekend the people will say to their representatives don't cut out a program that's creating jobs, don't require disaster victims to have an offset, let's keep the government operating and let's find a way to pay for this over time together and get this deficit under control. i am willing to do that. and as the chair of this committee, i promise them we can do better budgeting

america's cup in 12 and 13. some of these opportunities are program sites for the event authority. areas where they will have food and beverage, merchandising, jumbotron showings, spectator stands, free access and vip corporate special showings. there will have events before and after the on water races. announcing the winner is entertainment pack -- after the fact. the america's cup pavilion or headquarters will be there. while the eastern part is under construction. we will be moving at pavilion to pier 27 and 29. where going through the permitting process to get a seismic retrofit and completion. the other areas, there will be some program event in dealing. and some of the peers in between with the bases that appears 30 and 32 south of the bay bridge. some of the renderings that were released with the draft the are. here is green and green -- marina green. some seating, all public access with the exception of some special hospitality areas. in 2013 that moves to the east, pierce 27, 29. where this will be the location of our cruise ship terminal. the rectangular building to the

programs. we understand the importance to the america's cup. we understand that the deir does not define how the parks will be mitigated and what resources will be made available for that service. we ask to help assure public safety and access. protect christy field as a vital resource. preserve the vitality of the education and volunteer program. identify financial resources for event preparation and management crowd and traffic control. san francisco bay and the surrounding parklands will make the america's cup memorable and historic. we simply call for measures to protect the national park that our community worked so hard to create and care for. we can assure positive legacy while protecting the bay area's beloved national parks. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> hello. i am a san francisco resident. i just want to thank you very much for this opportunity for comment. i am a big ocean conservation advocate. there are insufficient protection for the marine wildlife and maximum mals in and around the bay and this includes the two-legged m

and still to come in the program target law america persuades him a news letter hot its missile defense system on its territory as washington was ahead with its military plans to eastern europe. and in the nineteen hour long gun fight with the taliban you could pull away we talked to afghanistan's president is the bloodshed is the result of foreign intervention. italy's lower house of parliament is meeting right now to debate the future of the highly unpopular austerity package intended to put a leash on the country's runaway that the country's lower house of parliament is voted today on whether to pass an extensive stat of tax hikes and spending cuts the measures already been passed by the senate despite weeks of wrangling and mass public protests that even have passed that many wonder if it'll be enough because artie first reports years of economic stagnation and a culture of government access may have left it too little too right. as italy prepares to once again tighten its belt and the light of new york stares he measures politicians it scenes have found a way to save themselves and

year we have in america to make a program for everyone screw job security through the quantity of our products because you were referring to just to refresh really sure chip we're going to hurt our infrastructure it's hurting us why americans and americans were. so you mentioned this is an old story and you go back and you see in the eighty's there were these campaigns to tell that story but now fast forward and i feel like you have an american populace that is pretty used to and enjoy their cheap goods no matter what it is so how do you convince americans that that one hundred dollar patio furniture they got that was made in china they should really pay fifteen hundred dollars for it to have it made america but it's not necessarily always cheaper to have it overseas but there's a lot of situations where consumers clearly don't have a choice not a single cell phone in the united states of america so you can say oh well consumers want she's good but it's also that you know there's not that many choices listen i mean we have the least amount of americans employed manufacturing making fo

america. still to come on denied's program, coping with the mental scars of -- tonight's program, coping with the mental scars of war. in france, two women have become the first to be fine in court. the decision comes after a ban. the women say they will take the case to the european court of human rights. >> it has taken six months and a provocative stand by two muslim women for the first find to be opposed. today, they were ordered to pay 120 euros and 80 euros respectively for refusing to remove the veils in public. she is 32. she is a divorced single mother. -- decision to where the wear the veil was her own. she has been banned from all public spaces. >> i was shocked. a week after the law was introduced, a man hit me in front of my child. >> the veil is not required by islam. this debate is divided event in imuslim communities. muslim communities. the police can refer each case to a judge, who have the power to impose a fine or a citizenship check or both. it could take years for the process to be exhausted in the current system. eventually, these women will get their opportunity to tes